This time three years ago, John Fetterman was running for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania as the heir apparent to Bernie Sanders’ socialist movement within the Democrat Party.
But after being elected, despite a near-fatal stroke, and watching Democrats implode in 2024 largely due to the agenda he campaigned on, the Democrat Senator is desperate for a rebrand.
And now John Fetterman made one miscalculation that has his political career hanging by a thread.
Smarter than he looks
While the bulk of the Democrat Party has for some odd reason deciphered their 2024 election setbacks as justification for doubling down on their worst tendencies, Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) has chosen a different path.
Rather than devoting every moment of every day to “resisting” President Donald Trump’s every move, Fetterman has traveled to Mar-a-Lago to meet with the President and seemingly expressed a desire to work together with the administration when they find common ground.
Of course, in reality, the Democrat Senator hasn’t really changed any of the radical left-wing positions he took while positioning himself as the next Senator Bernie Sanders (Socialist-VT) during the 2022 Midterm elections.
He simply sees the writing on the wall, especially in his home state of Pennsylvania, which has become increasingly difficult for Democrats to win over the past decade or so.
But at the same time, Senator Fetterman is no dummy.
He knows full well that he’ll have no hope for re-election in 2028 if he alienates his left-wing base.
As such, Fetterman recently blocked a Senate bill that would have barred biological males who claim to be women from competing in women’s sports.
In fact, he even went so far as to attack the nearly 80% of Americans who support protecting women and women’s sports, claiming that it’s actually biological males who claim to be women who are the “real victims,” not biological women whose safety and opportunities are actually under threat.
“I’m not dumb either,” Fetterman claimed. “I know the polling, and now a lot of people are saying it’s absurd. And now, for me, that’s when I felt like it’s a time to really say I’m not gonna bully or I’m not gonna degrade those.”
The remark came in an interview with the RINO establishment website The Bulwark.
“It was 100% avoidable…”
The Democrat Senator went on to claim that the hubbub of biological men competing in women’s sports has been blown out of proportion.
“And now, you know, we’re at 13 million people in our state,” he added. “And it’s a small, small number of people that are involved in that. And I have a 13-year-old daughter, and she plays basketball. And I’m not afraid that she’s gonna get mowed down.”
The only problem with Fetterman’s logic is the fact that there are a number of girls who are being “mowed down” by biological men competing in women’s sports.
For example, former North Carolina high school volleyball player Payton McNabb, who came within inches of losing her life after a biological male who claimed to be a woman spiked a volleyball into her head.
McNabb was instantly rendered unconscious, suffering a traumatic brain injury, brain bleeding, partial paralysis, and loss of peripheral vision on her right side, all while putting an end to her athletic career at just 17-years-old.
“It was 100% avoidable, if only my rights as a female athlete had been more important than a man’s feelings,” McNabb previously told The New York Post.
But while President Trump invited McNabb to his recent address before a joint session of Congress, Fetterman and his fellow Democrats are more than happy to pretend female athletes like her either don’t exist or don’t have the right to speak up.
“I know that there’ll be commercials saying, ‘Fetterman’s for they/them’ and blah, blah, blah,”
Fetterman said, referring to effective campaign ads Trump ran to highlight former Vice President Kamala Harris’ support for allowing biological men to take over women’s sports. “And I’m like, ‘Hey, you know, like bring it on.’ I’m not afraid to stand for my side on that.”
“I made that choice, and I could have tried to cut my head down like a lot of my other colleagues decided to do,” he added. “But for me, even though I know it’s politically unpopular, I think that’s the kind of time to do that.”
